Software Engineer, Strategic Defense

Anduril Industries, Inc.; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Washington, D.C. seeks a Software Engineer to solve networking, autonomy, systems integration, and robotics challenges, ensuring seamless product collaboration and delivering critical outcomes.

The role emphasizes pragmatic engineering and high-quality, on-time delivery. The engineer will own customer deployments, write scalable code, and collaborate across teams while prioritizing user experience within engineering constraints.

Qualifications

• Engineering background from industry or school; CS, SWE, math, or physics preferred.
• Experience with data processing and analysis.
• Experience with Go, Rust, or Python.
• Experience with frontend frameworks React or Angular.
• Ability to navigate complex systems and code bases.
• Willingness to travel up to 50%.

Responsibilities

• Own the software solutions deployed to customers.
• Write code to improve products and scale mission capability to more customers.
• Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality.
• Create and analyze metrics for debugging and monitoring.
• Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next steps.
• Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing UX and engineering constraints.
• Travel up to 50% to build, test, and deploy capabilities.

Skills

Go

Rust

Python

React

Angular

Data processing

System navigation

Willingness to travel

Education

Computer Science

Software Engineering

Mathematics

Physics

Tools

React

Angular

Job description

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

About the job

As a Software Engineer, you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way. Your efforts will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes. Above all, Mission Software Engineers are driven by a “Whatever It Takes” mindset—executing in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes correctly, on-time, and with high quality.

What you'll do

• Own the software solutions that are deployed to customers.
• Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to more customers.
• Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality.
• Create and analyze metrics that are leveraged for debugging and monitoring.
• Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-steps.
• Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints.
• Travel up to 50% of the time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world.

Required qualifications

• Must be willing to travel up to 50% to Asia Pacific
• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
• Experience working with a variety of programming languages such as Go, Rust, or Python
• Experience working with frontend frameworks such as React or Angular
• Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
• A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact

Preferred qualifications

• 4+ years of professional industry experience working
• Developing software/hardware for safety critical functionality
• Distributed communication networks and message standards

US Salary Range

$166,000 - $220,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits .

As set forth in Anduril Industries’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.